These changes are all merged to master/6.x now - thanks Lukasz for reviewing I'll sort out the merge conflicts with the 7.0 branch in a few days
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 5:52 PM Kusal Kithul-Godage <kusal.kithulgod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So in Struts 7.0, the com.opensymphony.xwork2 package is being renamed > and merged with org.apache.struts2. > > For many applications this will be a straightforward find and replace > when upgrading to 7.0. However, I was doing some investigation into > whether we can provide a small deprecation/transitionary period where > both packages are supported (e.g. Struts 6.7). This would be very > helpful for migrating large multi-module codebases. > > After some work [1], I was able to get key APIs working in both > packages. With these changes, most Action, Result and Interceptor > classes can be migrated over to the new org.apache.struts2 namespace. > I've also created compatible org.apache.struts2 counterparts for > com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionContext as well as a bunch of Action > marker interfaces. > > I've taken care to ensure these changes don't impact backwards > compatibility and so migrating to the new package namespace as part of > Struts 6.x is entirely optional. > > I'm not sure if there is another Struts 6.x release planned but I > think there's some value in providing such a transitional version, > even if it's only for a subset of APIs. Thoughts? > > [1] https://github.com/apache/struts/pulls/kusalk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org
